May 13 1970
From The Space Library
MSC announced selection of Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. to receive 18-mo, $1,075,000, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for large space station solar-array technology-evaluation program. Program objectives were to conduct technical evaluation of current state of the art of solar systems and design analysis and test evaluation of components. Work would be conducted under MSC direction. (MSC Release 70-48)
Sovetsky Voin in Moscow published article on conquering universe, by Soviet Academician Boris N. Petrov: "During the next few years' studies of circumterrestrial space, the upper atmosphere and earth from space will undoubtedly develop further with the use of satellites with automatic instrumentation, periodically launched manned spaceships and large orbiting scientific stations operating for long periods and having a replaceable crew, as well as by sounding the atmosphere with geophysical rockets." (JPRS, 50505, 5/13/70, 53-4)
AFSC announced participation with MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in Project Seek Storm to provide basis for design and development of improved weather radar system. USAF WC-130 Air Weather Service aircraft, using specialized weather instrumentation, were to gather flight data for system to provide information on where storms would strike and to provide maps showing where heaviest rainfalls would occur. Project was under way at AFSC's Electronic Systems Div. at L. G. Hanscom Field, Mass. (AFSC Release 122.70)
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